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£ Written ly a Veteran of th: late American army."]
The duty of an AMERICAN HERO.
Addressed to the President.
“ J)F.AR is that man, to virtue’s c.aufe is dear,
Who for liir. fullering count ry drops * tear,”
Rut dearer he, whom patriot duty warms,
To rife her champion inthe llrife ot arms;
To guard her falety from imperious force ;
To guide her armies and direst her course :
Compel her vanquifh’d enemies to yield,
And rear her arenes to the bloody held.
Such have we seen thee in Columbia’s cause,
When injur’d freedom room’d her High led laws;
Buch have we seen thee tife in Irenes <>i death,
And blailed legions tremble at thy breath j
War's dreadful clarion drop her murderous
found,
And Peace, delightful seraph ! futile around !
What deep felt raptures old this hour imparl;
What strong emotions burst from every heart ;
When fir'll we saw the bloody contcil end,
And hail’d our country’s faviour & its friend!
Yet toon that country felt anew alarm,
And call’d its hero to ailpel the ftoi m ;
To check the causes of domestic ftrife,
And mould the expiring fabrick into life.
With generous warmth you heard a nation’s
pray ‘r,
Left Vernon’s recess for a life of care :
Wuh parent hand our fhatter’d Itate renew’d,
With wisdom temper’d & with llrengthendu’d;
And in declining years, frefh toils have brav’d,
Toguardihatcmpin* whichyourarmshad lav’d.
But fee new fpettres lift their horr.d dupes!
New civil Cornells rife, and difeord gapes!
Contention fiercely fwclls its jarring notes,
And faftion hilLs thro’ her hundred throats—
Intent our infant veirelto o’erwhehn ;
Or chace the long tried Pilot from the helm!
Yet let not frowns like these thy hopes
impair,
Non drive ihy Heady patience to despair ;
But let thy country, at this moment , prove,
The manly efforts of thy generous love.
Defend their hcav’n-born rights, defend thine
°wn I [known.
Let charter’d powers from lawless claims be
Like fume tall cliff, which winds and waves
assail,
Stand thou the bulwark of the trembling vale—
And while such threat’ning ills around are
hurl’d,
O iilk thy glory to a world !
L O N D O N.
The Yorkshire Phenomenon.
The following letter relative to this Phe
nomenon, has been written to Mr. ]o
phetm to a friend.
The very lingular phenomenon which
took place near my house in Yorfliire,
fn Sunday the 20th of December, ’97,
has excited general curiosity. Being m
London at the time, it was impolhble
for rae to know more of it, titan front
fome vague accounts in provincial and
London papers, and to be certain from
private letters that such an event had
occurred. On my return here X found
that for thefpaee ofnearly three weeks
30 or 40 peribns on each day had come
to fee the Hone which had fallen : and
I found likewise a number of letters
from different parts of the kingdom, re
questing me to give them an account ol
the circumfiance.
The following detail, which you are
welcome to make public, will be, I hope,
fatisfaftory on the lubjeft :
The exaft weight of the Hone which
fell,and which was weighed immediate
ly on being dug up, was by Merlin’s
balance, 3 Hone 13 pounds. On being
measured, it had buried itfelf in twelve
inches of foil , and after that in fix inches
of solid chalk rock, from whence it was
fomc kittle time in being extracted.
When taken up it was warm, and fmoak
ed.
At the time it fell, a number ofex
plolions were heard by the tiircc men,
nt short intervals, about as loud as the
report of a pillol. The Hone is firong
ly impregnated with fuiphur, and then
fmclr very Hrongly, The general tex
ture of the Hone is that ofgrey granite,
of which I know of none that may be
called “ natives of this country.”
# What renders this event the more ex
traordinary is, that the day was a mild,
hazy day ; a fort of weather very fre
quent on these hills, when there arc no
winds or Horms; but there was not any
thunder or lightning the whole day.
It fell about three o’clock in the after
noon. Its course, as far as I can colled
irom different accounts, was from south
west.
At Bridlington, and at different villa
ges, founds were heard in the air, which
the inhabitants took to be the noile of
guns at sea : but at two adjoining vil
kiges, the noise was so diltind of lomc
thmg lingular palling through the air,
towards my habitation, that five or fix
people came up to fee if any thing extra
ordinary had happened to ray house or
grounds.
In burying itfelf in theearth, it threw
u P, a .§ reatCr quantity of foil by far than
a lheli would have flung up and to a
much greater extent. When the labour
er had recovered from the extreme alarm
into which the delcent of luch a Hone
had thrown him, his firfl defeription was
Columbian Jftufeum,
“ that the clouds opened as it fell, and
he thought heaven and earth were com
ing together.”
From the various persons who have
been to infpc f t this curioftty, and who
are dill daily coming from different
parts, no fatisfadory conjecture has yet
been hazaided from whence it can have
come. We have no such (tone in the
country. There has not been any where
in thele parts any eruption from tlie
earth. As it is jagged and Angular, it
cannot have come from any building ;
and as the day was not tempestuous, it
does notfeem probable that it can have
been forced from any rocks, the neare!
of which are those of Flamborough head,
a diftanceof 12 miles.
The particulars of this event are now
before the public. 1 have taken every
due care to examine the accounts given
# o
by the different persons, who all agree
upon the fubjedl; and from what I have
ieen, I have no doubts of the veracity of
their relation. To account for so ex
traordinary an appearance, I leave to the
referches of the philosopher.
I have the honour to be, fir,
Your obedient humble servant,
Edward To 1* h a m.
Wold Cottage, February 9, 1796.
Cotton Ginning.
T -1 FI E Subscriber is empowered by
JL Mr. EV E y of the Bahama Islands,
to receive a fubfeription for his Cot
ton Ginning Machine. Gen
tleman of the Hates of South-Carolina
and Georgia, who may wilh to become
fifijfcribers, are requefied to fend for
ward their names as soon as convenient,
in order that the fubfeription may be
ciofed. Mr. Eve will engage to deliv
er the Machine, independent of the pow
er that impels it, in Savannah, for fifty
guineas. On Mr. Eve’s part, he con
tradsthat this Machine will gin 30olbs.
of dean cotton per day, with a small
impelling power either of wind, of wa
ter, or of horses. This machine in a
few days, and with a trifling expence,
can be attached to any machine in uie
for other purpoles, such as 1 ice machines,
saw or grill mills. Mr. Eve will fend
over a person competent to set them in
motion, and fully to explain their sev
eral powers. From fome small expe
riments that have been made upon the
green feed cotton it appears that from
150 to 20olbs. can be ginned in this
machine per day. For further informa
tion upon this fubjed I beg leave to re
fer gentlemen to the undersigned certi
ficate from a refpedable Cotton Plan
ter of this Hate, who has been an eye
witness ot the execution done by this
machine, and to various certificates that
have come out at different times in the
Bahama papers, signed by themofl ref
pedable Planters in that country. Fur
ther particulars will be made known
upon application from any gentleman
who may wifli to become a fubferiber.
Ths machine has met with universal ap
probation in every part of the Welt-
Indies to which ir has been sent.
THOMAS SPALDING.
GEORGIA, Chatham County.
IDO certify, that, being on a visit for
my health to New Providence, one
of the Bahama Islands, I was induced to
make an experiment on Mr. Eve’s Cot
ton Ginning Machine of the green feed
cotton, commonly cultivatedin the back
country of the southern Hates, and sent
to Savannah for a small quantity there
of, which on experiment 1 found to an
swer. The rainy season letting in a
bout the time I received the cotton the
whole was not ginned, but Mr. Eve as
sured me his machine was competent,
irom the calculation he had made, to
clean out in good weather two hundred
weight of clean cotton in the course of a
day. The machine separates the feed
from the cotton by rollers without do
ing any injury to the ltaple, and, from a
laniple ot feed and cotton in pofleflion
of the fubferiber, any gentleman can be
immediately convinced of the truth of
this opinion. During my Hay in Nas
sau I frequently visited Mr. Eve’s ma
chine which was impelled by wind, and
never saw more than two people attend
ing the fame, one a grown person and
the other a Fmall boy. This machine
is capable of being attached to almoH any
of those used for various purposes in this
country ; the conilruclion appears by
no means complex, and every planter of
confequcnce in the Bahamas is in the
practice of using them.
J. WALDBURGER.
C A S Ii given for clean
R A G S,
dt thii Office,
The Savannah Academy, in the
FILATURE.
TIIE subscriber having engaged an Afllftant
to tearh -writing, arithmatic, book.-keep
ii.g, navigation, surveying, and the inoft uieiul
of the practical branches oi the mathematics,
ptirpofes to keep an Evening School, lor the
inilruOionof youth in Latin, Greek, and what
ever is taught in the day-school. Public exam
inations (hull be regularly holden, at the end
of every quarter. Unless the pupils wilt he
caafed to attend regularly in the fc.hool hours,
the hopes of a fpvedy progress, mult unavoid
ably be disappointed—the progress of the l'cho
lar, isthe belt criterion of merit or demerit in
the teacher. In the mean time, parents and
guardians arc referred to the following recom
mendaiions, to which many others of equal
sefptttability might be added.
Win. NIXON.
Savannah, June 7.
oi )py of a letter from the underfigoed gentlemen, to
the Rev. \LV. Nixon.
Sir,
It is with great plcafure we express our opin
ion and approbation of the rapid progress of
the voting gentlemen under your tuition, in
tlie Latin language.
At the public examination this morning,
we were moil agreeably surprised at their un
co.union proficiency, and fully convinced of
the advantages attending your mode of induc
tion. Although from perufmg the short (pe
cimen of your plan lately communicated to
the public, we had enter;ained very favoura
ble ideas of its success ; the fpecimeus exhibit
ed tilts day, nave far exceeded our molt {an
guine expeditions, and we think ourselves ful
ly juflified, in giving yon thistellimony of our
approbation of your method and talents in the
education of youth. That you may meet with
ample encouragement, and a correlpondem suc
cess, as well in your office of tutor, a.s in the
intended publication at large, of your excel
lent plan 01 inferuftion, is, fir, the warmcllwifh
of your molt obedient servants,
C. C. Pinckney, Richard Hutfon,
Henry Purcell, James Wilson,
Philip Smith, T. H. M‘Calla,
liaac Chanler, John Davidlon.
Charlrfton, Dec. 18th, 1789.
Extract of a. from a. gentleman in B:r?nuJ<i
to his friend in Ciiurlejion, dated November
37th, 1791.
I peruied with admiration, the Rev. Mr.
Nixon’s Profoiy made easy, and the specimen of
his plan for facilitating the acquisition of the
Latin language. They do him in the opinion
of every class of my friends, the highest cre
dit, and the account given by Ur. Tucker, of
the manner of the public examination of his pu
pils, entirely ellaced from the minds of fome
persons, the doubts they had entertained of the
fairnefs 6f bufmefs. aB-qt.
DISTRICT of GEORGIA.
CdRCL/Il COURT of the U>'ted States,
Abril -jthj 1796.
JOSEPH SPENCER. Charles Harden, John
Wallace. \\ dliatn Middleton, Gilb'-rt Baillic,
David Delrgal, John Cooper and Charles Ir
vin, having though dulv summoned, made de
fault as Grand Jurors for the term aforefaid.
It is ordered, tbit they be fined in the sum of
Ten Pounds each, unless they do make on oath,
a fufficient cxcufe, to be filed in the Clerk’s
office, of thisdiflridt, on or before thefirilday
of the next term.
And whereas, John Pouller, Francis Davies,
Francis Chauvin, Samuel Fulton, James M’Col
lock, John Warren, and Jonathan Fabian, be
ing duly summoned as petit Jurors, for the
above term, made default. It'is ordered, that
they be fined in the sum of rive Pounds each,
unless they fhal! shew good and fufficient ex
cuse, after the manner and within the time
above direftfd : And it is further ordered, that
the above be published 111 the Gazettes, four
weeks fucceflively, that the Lid defaulters may
have due notice theieof.
Ry order of the Cou't,
CHARLES HARRIS, Clerk.
Savannah, 20th May, 1796. 23-81,
Strayed or Stolen on the
Ift instant, a BAY HORSE, eight
years old, about 15 hands high, a Email
piece cut out of the left ear, thin main
which hangs on the right lide of the neck,
a fipall white fpet on the inside of the
near hind foot—the above mentioned
horse was purchased of Major Naylor,
and its probable he is gone towards Au
gusta.—ls stolen, a reward of Twenty
Dollars, will be paid on apprehending
the Thief and securing the Horse, or
Ten Dollars for the Horse only, by ap
ply ing to EWING c? M V C ALL.
Savannah, May 23. (2\tf.)
Edward Griffith,
Watch-Maker , (on the Bav ‘
MOST refpcdffully informs his CUS
TOMERS, that lie has received per
the Brig Apollo ; a Handsome
Ajjortment of ’ Jezccllcry,
Q3T EDWARD GRIFFITH, re
quests all those indebted to him to make
immediate payment, and all those who
have accounts against him to present
them for payment.
Savannah, April 19. ni4..tf.
I AM IN WANT OF
4 or 5 NEGRO BOYS,
14 LEV EN,twelve or 15 years old,on
Hire, for whom, I will pay the
usual or customary Wages, monthly or
quarterly, as may be ft suit the owners.
B. PUTNAM.
March 19, 1796,
GEORGE ENOE,
Taylor and Habit-Maker,
Next door to Edw. Griffith , on the Bay
RETURNS his finccre thanks to the Ladies
and Gentlemen of Savannah, and the Pub
lie in general for the encouragement he has ,7
ceived in the line of his profrtfion, and w jfl *
a continuance of the fame. They may rely 0 n
the Itrirtelt attention to their orders, and work
done in the neateil and molt fafhionable man
n- r. Orders from the country will be RriCtlv
attended to. lie has on hand a small aflor;•
ol GOODS, 1 tut able for the prefeui and up!
proaching leamn—V i z. P
SILK NANKEENS,
INDIA Do.
SUPERFINE CLOTHS
Do. CASSLMERES,
MANCHESTER MUSLINS &
MUSLINETS,
BROWN JEANS,
MARSEILLES OUILTINC Are
w?v?„ C \ SH wi , U 3 NEGROv
U UNCii, wno unucrllands Cookiiui Walk
ing. °/, ‘y
Savannah, April 1 5, 1796. L*
John N. Brailsford,
At lhs
Ship Chandlery £sf Commiffioa
s T O R E,
End, r the BL UFF :
Has ior S A L E,
A variety of Articles in the
Ship Chandlery Line :
-‘-I-SC—A Quantity of
Dry Goods & Hard JVarc )
And keeps a < on it ant fuprly of
GROCERIES.
fio” Mnfitrs of l iff Is and others f ft,,
plied with SEA STORES, c Ac. at the
jhortefl Notice.
Savannah, Georgia.
Savannah id Augulfa
T A G E,
\ \/ ‘LL Hart from Major Brown’s Boarding
‘l'V Houle in Savannah, every Saturday at
Nine o’Clock in the morning ; and from Mr .
Cables in Augusta, every Wednesday at Six
o’Clock in the morning.—The Fare of each pas
senger Eight Dollars, with an allowance of 141 b.
Baggage : All extra Baggage gdjj per lb. Way
Passage, .jd. per mile.—No Seat can be en
gaged till the Money is paid—the Stage Book
will De kept ai the Coflee-Houfe.by Maj. Brow.:,
where Seats may be taken. PalUngers are de
dehred to be punctual to the lin.e, as the Stage
waits for no perfon.—Exira Baggage mull be
at the Stage-Houfc, by Seven o’Clock in the
morning, or run the rifle of not going.
NATHANIEL TWINING.
N.B. Pafiengers Baggage is considered under
their own care.
Savannah, May 13. 21-ts.
10 Dollars Reward.
SI OLLN out of the Office of the Colum
bian Museum, on the 16th initant, a faffi
ionable I ranch Silver WATCH, very flat,
with a gut Chain and Key, with a Iteel pipe,
has ‘-he name of Tround'ari, (-if rightly recollect
ed) on the face. Whoever will deleft the
Thief with the Watch, shall receive the above
reward, or 5 Dollars for the Watch only. If
the above Watch, should be offered for sale to
any ot the Goldfniiths in this city, they will
pleale to Hop it, and the person Offering it for
hue, and give information to the Printers of
he Columbian Museum, who will pay the
above reward.
Savannah, May 20, 1796.
IPANTED VO PURCHASE
A Negro Woman,
Accustomed to Cook,
Waih ir Iron, for which
a liberal Price will be given.
ROBERT WATTS.
Savannah, March 22 d, 1796.
Five Dollars Reward.
RAN-away from the Subscriber, on
the Bth initant, a Mulatto BOY,
named Y out, 19 years old, and about 5
feet high, had a fear or two in his face.
Whoever will lodge him in the co/nmon
goal in Savannah, fliall have the above
reward.
JOSEPH R. DOPSON.
Mon teeth, April 11. (n.13.)
5 Dollars Reward.
\ BSC ON DF D from the Subferi
j. \. ber the 4th inH. an Indented Wo
man Servant, by name HANNAE
FULLER, aged about nineteen years ;
a low well sett woman, fair complexion
and hair.—All jieilons are forbid har
bouring the above servant, on pain 01
being dealt with according to law.
FRANCIS MALLERY.
Savannah, April 1 3. ni J.
SEAM EN S ART! CLE S,
For Sole ot tbis Office.
No. 30,